Live Play Data

Teacher's Pest

· Creature — Skeleton Pest · Secrets of Strixhaven (SOS)

Live Inclusion

Buy on TCGplayer

Times Brought

274

Decks Running

137

Median Cast Turn

4.5

Drawn → Played

71%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=52

12%

23%

12%

10%

31%

T6-9

10%

T10+

Median 4.5 P25 2 · P75 8 · max 11

On curve 35% (12 / 52 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 38%

The "good card" funnel

274 brought · 128 players

Brought to game

274

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 50% of this card is still on the battlefield at game end. This reflects how often it survives removal, not just whether it's a permanent.

≥ -12.6pp

Players who cast this card win 20% of the time (n=44) , vs 21% when it never left the library (n=170).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 28% (n=19).

Read this as correlation, not as the card's contribution. Casting a card means you lived long enough to cast it, so this gap widens with mana value across every card we track.

Observed gap -0.5pp; 95% confidence interval -12.6pp to +11.6pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

78 instances

1.3%

Library

33.3%

Battlefield

33.3%

Graveyard

9.0%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Dina, Essence Brewer 77 decks
2 Blech, Loafing Pest 37 decks
3 Dina, Soul Steeper 4 decks
4 Indominus Rex, Alpha 3 decks
5 Witherbloom, the Balancer 3 decks
6 Beledros Witherbloom 2 decks
7 Sméagol, Helpful Guide 2 decks
8 Bilbo, Birthday Celebrant 1 decks
9 Blex, Vexing Pest // Search for Blex 1 decks
10 Coram, the Undertaker 1 decks

Card text

Teacher's Pest

Creature — Skeleton Pest

Menace (This creature can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.) Whenever this creature attacks, you gain 1 life. {B}

: Return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped.

1 / 1

Secrets of Strixhaven (SOS) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Stephanie Cheung

Frequently Asked

Why isn't there more data on this card?

Playgroup Live collects per-card gameplay data from real Commander games. Play counts appear once a card reaches 100 tracked games, and the full charts need a sample of at least 25 observed games that is not dominated by a single pilot. Until this card clears those bars you're seeing only the basic counts. Stats refresh nightly.

How is Playgroup Live card data collected?

Players using Playgroup Live import their decklists before a game and log card actions as they play. Each cast, zone change, and resolution is recorded as a real game event. Stats on this site are computed from those events, not from decklist scrapes or theorycrafting. Playgroup has recorded 680,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.